PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA - 2017/09/04: Newspapers of the Cambodia Daily displayed at the newspaper's office. Cambodia Daily is one of Cambodia's independent English-language newspapers based in Cambodia since 1993 founded by Bernard Krisher, an American journalist. The newspaper company announced on September 3, 2017 that cease publication of newspaper as a result of extra-legal threats relating to a $6.3 million tax bill against the company by the government. (Photo by Satoshi Takahashi/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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Cambodia: The Unfree Press

The Cambodian government has continued tightening the screws on its already crippled free press, introducing severe prohibitions on election reporting ahead of the ballot in July, and establishing a taskforce to monitor social media posts.

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